Barefoot In Warm Rain In A Big City Centre

It doesn't get better than that for me. Warm rain on wet, smooth well worn pavement in a big exciting city on an otherwise hot day.

This is a slight departure from my usual videos as it's not so centred on barefooting (though there's plenty of barefooting in it) - but it's really about important issues faced by football fans and I really wanted to take the opportunity to document the productive day I had yesterday as part of a protest against the ridiculously high costs football fans in England are now facing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehyLLkooO0

 

An absence of warm rain, or the presence of 'proper' cool rain, would make it better, for me. Warm rain/drizzle (of the British urban variety, at least) tends to dry off leaving an odour that's slightly acidic or something, on clothing and skin. Sometimes it's good to get home to take your jacket and shoes off and leave them by the door after such exposure. That said, I still like sploshing in puddles in wellies!

 

Barefoot in or just after a warm summer rain is pure sex (which means I have a LOT of problems)!

 

^^^ Nice to see one or two footy fans there sporting the archetypal 'casual' trainer: the adidas 'Gazelle'! A classic trainer - wish they were more widely and easily available in larger sizes :-( They have a good, low-slung last; not too far away from being proto-barefoot/minimalist. Probably not a bad choice for people with plantar fasciitis.

 

I love walking in warm summer rain, it's one of the best things about going barefoot.

Twice this week I've been caught up in heavy downpours, in Nottingham and Newark. Some of the surfaces such as stone slabs can be a little slippery, but it's still safer and easier (and more fun) than walking in flip flops or sandals.

Plus, bare feet look really cool when they're wet

 

What mattygroves said.

 

I'd like to hear someone say that what he said wasn't exactly what he said!

 

And wet stone slabs are certainly liable to be treacherous, if you're going to faff around on top of them wearing flip flops or sandals, like some sort of fey, affected sybarite! Just ask yourselves this: would Reinhold Messner or Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ever wear such things when walking on rain-coated slabs? I think you'll find they wouldn't!

 

I'm not sure you've quite grasped the concept of going barefoot, quodlibet. Jackets, shoes, sandals, flipflops. No wonder you don't enjoy it much!

 

There's no wonder to be wondered because there's no stated or implied 'non-enjoyment' up there! Expressing a preference for heavier over lighter rainfall shouldn't be seen as an indication of an inability to extract enjoyment from the latter, in some way. I want it to be known: I've never gone around outright bad-mouthing drizzle! And, on its own terms, I've been able to have a positive experience of it, down the years.